1. Powerpoint presentation – What is forensic science? The vocabulary of forensic science. 2. What examples of forensic science have you seen in television mysteries or movies? Would you like to be a forensic scientist? Why or why not? Is there such a thing as a perfect crime?
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3. What kinds of scientists are needed to solve a crime? Invite students to draw the scientist in action. - Police investigate crimes and collect evidence. - Photographers take photographs to record evidence. - Forensic anatomists reconstruct faces. - Serologists, chemists and biologists study blood - Toxicologists study poisons - Dentists study teeth. - Forensic pathologists study how people die. - Entomologists study insects. (Pentland & Stoyles, 2002). - Forensic anthropologist - A forensic anthropologist is someone who assists a criminal investigation by analyzing human remains, providing information concerning the origin and identity of a body as well as how and when someone died. http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/what-is-forensic-anthropologist
4. Invite students to start their investigative journal. Invite students to identify which type of forensic scientist interests them the most and why.
Invite students to find more information on the forensic scientist that interests them the most and to share this information with the group. (Research outline)
5. Great Mouse Detective part 2 **http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6BXQQp-AJo** Watch the video. Read the questions to be answered with the students. Put the students in partners of groups of 3 to answer as many questions as possible. Watch the video again. Have the students complete the questions. Correct the questions with the students.
- Discuss with the students what will happen next.
2. What examples of forensic science have you seen in television mysteries or movies? Would you like to be a forensic scientist? Why or why not? Is there such a thing as a perfect crime?
- Police investigate crimes and collect evidence.
- Photographers take photographs to record evidence.
- Forensic anatomists reconstruct faces.
- Serologists, chemists and biologists study blood
- Toxicologists study poisons
- Dentists study teeth.
- Forensic pathologists study how people die.
- Entomologists study insects. (Pentland & Stoyles, 2002).
- Forensic anthropologist - A forensic anthropologist is someone who assists a criminal investigation by analyzing human remains, providing information concerning the origin and identity of a body as well as how and when someone died.
http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/what-is-forensic-anthropologist
4. Invite students to start their investigative journal. Invite students to identify which type of forensic scientist interests them the most and why.
Invite students to find more information on the forensic scientist that interests them the most and to share this information with the group.
(Research outline)
5. Great Mouse Detective part 2
**http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6BXQQp-AJo**
Watch the video.
Read the questions to be answered with the students. Put the students in partners of groups of 3 to answer as many questions as possible. Watch the video again. Have the students complete the questions. Correct the questions with the students.
- Discuss with the students what will happen next.